Dwanya Hickerson is escorted into the Jackson County Adult Detention Center in Pascagoula after being arrested Monday, July 25, 2016, in Pascagoula, Miss. Dwanya Hickerson is escorted into the Jackson County Adult Detention Center in Pascagoula after being arrested Monday, July 25, 2016, in Pascagoula, Miss.
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Jay Higginbotham holds a copy of his book "Mauvila" under a statue of Hernando De Soto in Spanish Plaza in downtown Mobile in this 1999 Press-Register file photo. Higginbotham died June 20, 2017, of pneumonia and complications from Parkinson's disease.
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Citizens of Pascagoula and Moss Point will travel to the polls on Tuesday to cast their votes for those they feel will best represent them and their city. Mayoral elections will not take place until June 6. The special election for Jeff Sessions' Senate seat has shrunk to 18 candidates after Republican Karen Haiden Jackson was thrown off the GOP ballot because she ran for a judicial seat last year as an independent.
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Pascagoula, Miss., residents welcome the Amtrak inspection train as it travels from New Orleans, La., to Jacksonville, Florida on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. will host a meeting in Mobile Wednesday to lay out the next steps of restoring passenger rail to the region.
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The Mobile Police Department made several drug arrests and are investigating two armed robberies over the weekend in their daily crime report released on Monday afternoon. Police said on Friday at approximately 8:00 p.m., officers responded to the 300 block of Seabreeze Road in reference to an assault.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has assumed control of wastewater treatment at the shuttered Mississippi Phosphates Corporation factory in Pascagoula, and is processing 2 million gallons of highly acidic, slightly radioactive, liquid waste a day. The factory, which began operating in the 1950s, produced fertilizer using phosphate rocks imported from China and other countries, and it produced sulfuric acid.
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